On September 9, 2013, the FDA published a draft guidance designed to provide current agency thinking on the methods and testing necessary to establish bioequivalence between the reference listed drug (RLD) and the generic powder for inhalation.
Today, the FDA released Revision 1 to the Draft Guidance to Industry: Generic Drug User Fee Amendment of 2012: Questions and Answers. This 36 page document contains additional questions and answers (as well as clarifications) to some of the issues raised in the original draft guidance issued on August 22, 2012.
Oftentimes, over the years when I was working at the FDA, policy decisions were made way above my pay grade that did not really have buy-in from us program folks. In my further review of the FDA’s Draft Q&A Guidance on the implementation of the new stability requirements, I wondered if program and policy were […]
The FDA has announced on the Federal Register (FR) prepublication page the availability (tomorrow) and publication of two documents that will be of significant interest to the industry.
Today the FDA issued the long awaited Guidance to Industry: ANDAs Stability of Drug Substances and Drug Products in draft answering questions the public submitted relative to the final ANDA stability guidance document issued September 25, 2012.
Ever since the meningitis outbreak associated with the products from the New England Compounding Center, the FDA and the States have been taking a closer look at this segment of the industry. So far, in 2013 alone, the FDA has issued 51 Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products, of which 17 (33%) related to sterile pharmacy compounded products and/or laboratories that tested those products for sterility and/or potency. In addition, FDA has taken 54 separate actions against compounding pharmacies in 2013 alone, with only 24 actions taken in the previous 5 years.
On August 20, 2013, FDA and the EMA (European Medicines Agency) published a document entitled, “EMA-FDA pilot program for parallel assessment of Quality-by-Design applications: Lessons learnt and Q&A resulting from the first parallel assessment.” The Q&A document provides information regarding agreements that were made between the agencies as a result of the first FDA-EMA parallel […]
Lachman Consultant Services, Inc. is proud to announce that Dr. Leon Lachman received a lifetime achievement award from Long Island University’s College of Pharmacy.
Collecting information about mean and median approval times for abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) is very difficult, time consuming and frustrating. We looked at the 31 approvals in June 2013 to see how the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) was doing.
The FDA’s expansion into China is well underway, but additional inspectors are on hold because Chinese officials are not issuing visas to agency employees.
